Herra is a beautiful girl with long blonde hair and blue eyes, who is studying Economics at the University of Prague where she meets Nazir, an Afghan boy whom she will fall passionately in love with. This unexpected coup de foudre will lead her to leave Europe and move to in a post-Taliban Kabul, ready to start a new life together with her newly married husband and his family.

After having lost his job and wife, Kenji moves back to Akita, the town in the north of Japan where he was born and there he meets Naoko, an old friend of his who is also back in town for her upcoming wedding. However, their reunion goes upside down when they find an old photo album, which brings back to memory the passionate relationship they had when they were teenagers. Kenji and Naoko cannot resist and very soon surrender to the love that had deeply involved them in the past. Only for five days though, until Naoko’s bridegroom, a soldier currently on mission, will be back for the wedding.

Janik and Samuel, two teenagers, have just finished high school.
They know that they have to make changes
in their lives and they are willing to do so,
but their need takes different shapes for
them due to their different family backgrounds. A journey to Istanbul becomes an opportunity to recover the balance upon which their friendship has always been based.

The story is centered on the complexity of human relationships especially during the troubled transition from adolescence to adulthood.

Anna has lost her memory but she has never forgotten how to cook. Thanks to Roula, she finds a new job and, through the contact with food and the people who eat it, she manages to retrace her past and ultimately recover her lost identity. As the director herself has underlined, cooking (alone or in the company of others) has been one of the activities that has accompanied, and in some cases even saved, people during the Covid-19 pandemic in households throughout the world. It is a simple, daily habit, but meaningful as it is in the protagonist’s life.

In a Jutland village,
Erna cherishes her dream of opening a cold cuts factory. It is the last year of the First World War and her son, who suffers from a mental disorder, is called to arms. To protect and save him from the ferocity of the war, Erna finds a way to stay by his side: she disguises herself as a soldier and enlists.
The Danish director looks at the last stages of a war of attrition from a new, female, perspective.